8th Light Employee Directory
Software DevelopmentIllinois, United States51-200 Employees
8th Light is a software development firm headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, with offices in London, Los Angeles, New York, and Austin. Founded in 2006, it provides product strategy, design, and engineering to move ideas from concept to production. The firm emphasizes expertise in agentic software and robust platform foundations to support operation under real traffic. Its client base spans financial services, education, retail, real estate, healthcare, and consumer sectors, and it helps teams decide what to build and how to deploy it. It positions itself around four pillars—Validated Innovation, AI-Ready Platforms, Governed Autonomy, and Marketplace at Speed—to deliver scalable, production-ready outcomes without compromising governance. In mid-2023, 8th Light announced a partnership with Code Platoon, reflecting ongoing collaboration with nonprofit programs to support software development teams.